Xenakis Matters, the book in which Associate Professor David Lieberman contributed a chapter, received a very positive review on the Domus website recently. The book is a collection of contributions from thirty scholars, artists, musicians, architects, musicologists, philosophers, and art historians about the life and contibutions of composer and architect Iannis Xenakis.

Lieberman's chapter, entitled "The Performity of Space — Architecture as the Production of Sound and Light," is a composite of a series of presentations that were part of two events that took place in New York in 2010: the symposium "Iannis Xenakis: Past, Present, and Future," held at the Brooklyn Experimental Media Center at New York University, and the panel discussion "Architecture as Total Art work: Iannis Xenakis and Le Corbusier," held at Columbia University. Both events explored the work and legacy of composer and engineer Iannis Xenakis in the new world.

The review outlines the importance of this book and the various perspectives offered on one man. "This is the basis of Xenakis Matters," the reviewer writes, "and where its strength lies: different perspectives focused on one same subject matter. From Plato’s cosmology to Le Corbusier’s studio, from Michel Serres to Luke DuBois, passing through a detailed exercise of understanding the graphic sketches of Erikhthon." The review ends with a reference to Lieberman's chapter, "As David Lieberman points out, Xenakis wasn’t bound to specific media or disciplines. Instead, he sought — with the reasoning of synthesis and combinatory practice of an exemplary architect — to engage, explore, and interrogate the full range of human experience, a much needed attitude in today’s architectural practice."

Read the full review here.